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Ramblings From the Road... and my desk
I needed a clever name for this blog and as you can see, I failed miserably. The problem is a skateboard blog is no more a sklog than skateboard art is "skart". It just doesn’t flow like "fugly" or "shart". Both of which are concatenations that are funny and clever. Some day I'll be funny and clever. Until then, just read the damn sklog, blog or whatever the Hell it is...
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2008
June 2008
- 6/24/08
- Porn Star Skateboards
What a perfect melding - porn stars and skateboarding. Does it come from a pornographer who skates or a skater who digs porn? Don't know,but it's a great concept. Who wouldn't want a porn star on their skate deck? OK,maybe there are some women out there who could forgo this option, but we love it.
With an upcoming website, they already have several porn star decks to choose from. With a tagline of "Ride Your Favorite Pornstar" they seem well on their way to success. Hell, isn't porn still a billion dollar industry?
- 6/4/08
- Over-Priced Celebrity Alcohol
This oddity wound up in my e-mail due to my bad habit of signing up for way to many mailing lists. I seem to be on everyone's "need to know" list.
I've been a hug e KISS fan ever since listening to Destroyer at a friend's house. If you've ever watched Gene Simmons' reality show, Family Jewels, then you're aware that Gene's business sense is to provoke any and every entity on the planet to slap "Kiss" onto their brand. I guess if you ask enough people, some are bound to say Yes.
I'm all for a glass of wine now and then - or every night - and as a Kiss fan I'm tempted to buy a bottle of my favorite band. However, I draw the line at $80 per bottle. I'm more of a $12 per bottle kind of guy. Not being a wine aficionado I can't attest to the quality of Kiss wine - also I've never had any - but can you imagine that this swill is really worth $80? And that's for the cheap stuff.
If I'm gonna rock & all night, I can't blow all my money on booze! C'mon Gene, you've got enough money. Go enjoy some of it.
- 6/3/08
- Vans Demos Wellfleet Skate Park
Our little spot on the beach was again ravaged by a real skate company. Vans did a demo at the Wellfleet skate park in Wellfleet, MA this afternoon. I busted out of work early to check out the scene. Habitat rolled through here last October, so I was super stoked to see another pro team blow through.
They arrived in a big tour bus with the "Off The Wall" logo plastered al over it. Unlike the Habitat demo, Vans set up tables and gave out t-shirts, hats, stickers and hot dogs while the team did the demo.I felt a little out of it... not knowing any of the dudes that were riding for them. Maybe I need to pay more attention to those skate mags I subscribe to.
There was a god vibe in the air and a couple of their guys really killed the place. We had some of our local guys there from Boardinghouse in Hyannis. It was a hell of a lot of fun and I hope more teams will make the trek out to Cape Cod.
May 2008
- 5/30/08
- Fill ‘R Up!
I wish I lived in a town where I could skate from place to place and leave my car at home...
Today I paid $4.01 per gallon for gas (low-octane, the cheap crap). The news media is in a frenzy trying to dish out energy conservation tips. Thats super, but why isn't anyone addressing the REASON gas prices are insane?!?
There's no shortage of gas. There's no increased demand. Still the price is skyrocketing artificially and padding the pockets of the oil companies. By the way... the US government is subsidizing these same oil companies. Oil companies are price-gouging and making billion dollar profits, so why the fuck are they being subsidized?!?
I'm all for living green, conservation and all that stuff, but the Bush administration has robbed and fucked-over the American public for 8 years and the fallout will be with us for a long time.
Next time I'm thinking of blowing some money at my local skate shop, I'm going to have to figure in how much it'll cost to fucking drive there. Same goes for getting to my local skate parks. - 5/20/08
- Cowboys Sacrifice Style to Combat Skateboarding's Anti-helmet Attitude
Find me a picture of a pro skater wearing a helmet and I'll bet you $50 its a pic of Tony Hawk. No one wears a helmet when they skate. They should, but it seems the cool-factor outweighs the utility of a healthy skull.
Troxel Helmets come to the rescue offering a melding the style of a western cowboy hat with the utility of a helmet. Now you can giddyap to your favorite skate park or spot and grind the gnar knowing your head will remain intact. Of course there's no way to know how badly you'll be beaten by fellow skaters who think your helmet-hat is... well, below standards.
Want more info on this atrocious cowboy helmet?
- 5/13/08
- Free Shipping?
Everyone loves something for nothing - aka: FREE. On the other hand it's said that, "There's no such thing as a free lunch." Enter CCS skateboard mail order...
I received an e-mail from them saying they missed me (Awwwww, how fucking sweet). In fact they missed me so much they wanted to offer me free shipping on my next order. "Sweet", I though since shipping is usually around $10. Or so I thought. Getting back to that non-existent "free lunch" I mentioned, apparently there's no such thing as free shipping either. OK, to be fair they did give me free shipping, but then they tacked on $1,50 for "handling". Wtf!
That must cover the cost of the hand-job they gave me to entice me to place another order. Always support your local skate shop! - 5/11/08
- Happy Mother's Day! Take your Mom to the skatepark today - she deserves a good time for a change.
- 5/10/08
- Fill'r Up
I'd love for someone to explain to me why our government subsidizes oil companies that are making billion dollar profits as the price-per-barrel rises above $120. Didn't Bush start his war to protect our oil supply (and make a shitload of money for himself and friends)? Today I paid $3.75 per gallon for the cheap shit! What the hell is going on?!? Food prices are rising too. Who the fuck can afford to live here? I'd skate to work if it weren't so damn far away.
Going "green" may be the way to go, but that costs even MORE. - 4/19/08
- A Little Bit of "SK8" at the NY Comic Con
Aside from the usual nerds who incessantly discuss the benefits of various super-powers (girls now exist in this clique), there were a few exhibitors that used skateboard decks for their artwork.
I found 3 vendors on the floor who had cover art from their latest comic releases stenciled on decks. If you're down with the art and want a one-of-a-kind piece of skart, it's a sweet deal at $100 each. I opted for the budget-conscious route knowing that a hotdog and soda would run $15 and I still had to travel home - I left with 2 bags of swag and a few meager purchases of books that looked interesting. And a newfound appreciation for short skirts and mohawks.
More from the New York Comic Convention »
- 4/15/08
- Bend Over - The Taxman Is Here To Screw You
What could be better on a Spring-like day in April than being bent over and fucked by the U.S. Taxman? Hell, nothing!!
Every year the middle class works hard so the government can steal an exorbitant portion of our earning to fund such endeavors as maintaining fake wars, subsidizing billion dollar oil companies and ruining the healthcare & financial industries.
I hope all you morons who voted TWICE for George Bush (our uneducated, drug-addled Head of State) are pleased with yourselves. I'm not sure if a great skate session could even push away the despair of another 4 years of Republican rule. - 4/11/08
- She Skates? Resurgence of the Spiraling Girl's Market
Last summer CCS (the mail order company) started a catalog for girls. As one would expect, they didn't seem to know much about girls and skateboarding. Yeah, it was supposedly a skate catalog. It consisted mainly of pink shirts and any skate hardgoods with a similar color scheme.
At the start all their printed catalogs and e-mails featured girls in bikinis. I'm down with that, but what's the connection to skateboarding. Then they had the bikini-clad chicks holding skateboards. Nice try - no sale. Finally, they realized that girls don't wear bikinis when skating and probably don't want to buy a new bikini from a skateboard retailer. Hence, their ads continued minus the t&a. A blow to the guys reading their catalog.
Today, along comes this little hottie in an e-mail from Active Mailorder touting a free towel offer with bikini purchase. I guess the free towel will come in handy when she's all sweaty from skating around in her new bikini. There has to be some connection to skateboarding, right? (give her a click to for the full article)
Let's face facts, this chick has never set foot on a board and probably doesn't even know this ad is for a skateboard mail order company. Don't get me wrong, she's cute and can ride my ramp any day, but this sort of ad sends a really bad message to girls. This image currently comes up on the Active Mailorder Girl site.
Are girls who skate supposed to go buy a bikini or heap on the right makeup to look like this woman? Skateboarding is about skateboarding and retailers who want to build up a girl's market shouldn't dilute their skate brand with bikinis and skirts. If they can make a buck - cool. But don't think that this woman offers any iconic value to skateboarding.
- 4/1/08
- Don't Believe the Hype
Face it. Without a doubt one of your friends will contact you today with some alarming news, freak you out and then yell, “April Fools!”
Beat ‘em to the punch and call them first... “Hey dude, the town is closing the skate park... and your car's on fire!”
April 2008
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